
Daydream VR gets Netflix support
Makes it more useful
Netflix is now available for Google’s Daydream VR platform. The app supports HBM and Hulu too.

Google decides steering wheels do matter
Fleet with human controls coming next year
According to people familiar with Alphabet Inc.’s plans, Google has recently dropped its plans to develop a modern yet controversial self-driving vehicle without manual control mechanisms, including a steering wheel or brakes.

Chrome now disables Flash by default
End of an error
Chrome 55, released earlier this week, now blocks all Adobe Flash content by default.

Google might buy Facebook
It's entirely feasible
The word on the information strasse is that Google wants to buy Facebook. It is entirely speculative, but could have legs.

Pixel predicted to sell six million
Will make Google a cool billion
Beancounters at Morgan Stanley have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that 5-6 million of Pixel and Pixel XL mobiles will be sold this year.

AMD’s deal with Google could be a breakthrough
Sky is the limit for clouds
AMD’s deal to flog Google its FirePro S9300 x2 GPU for the search engine’s cloud platform probably deserves another look.

HTC denies flogging off its smartphone business
Things are not that bad yet
Troubled maker of smartphones HTC has denied rumours that it could be about to flog off its smartphone business.

Google to put GPUs on cloud
Different flavours
Google Cloud is planning to add GPUs as a service early next year, following Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM’s Bluemix.

Apple’s plans for digital glasses start to leak
Will connect to iPhones
Fruity cargo cult Apple has started to leak out information on its digital glasses project.

LG sells 200,000 V20s
In just 10 days
LG’s V20 is doing rather well, with more than 200,000 of them leaping off shelves worldwide.